As he watched others play his game, “Forklift Fury,” for the first time, Tyler Watts paid close attention to the reactions.
The laughs.
The critiques.
The sometimes-epic fails.
But what Watts was mainly hoping for from the public gameplay at a recent Joybreaks meetup in downtown Orlando was brutal honesty.
“It’s paramount to put your games in front of people,” said Watts, who is one of the leaders of the six-person team to build “Forklift Fury.” “As a developer, your perspective is skewed by your knowledge of the technology and the game design’s intention. You need the average person’s perspective to guide you.”
Magic Gaming is moving onto the next round of the season-opening NBA 2K League tournament.
The squad had to wait out a bizarre postponement Thursday and league play all night Friday after going 3-1 in pool play Wednesday.
The team will enter the knockout round of The TICKET tournament as the eighth and final seed.
Magic Gaming had to wait 48 hours to learn its fate because a server glitch on Thursday forced the league to push its entire schedule to Friday.
The knockout round will consist of the winners of all 7 groups along with Magic Gaming, who earned the wild card berth because of its record and combined margin of victory.
Magic Gaming won three of four matches in the NBA 2K League’s season-opening The TIPOFF tournament but must now wait to see whether it will advance to the elimination round because of a disadvantage in the tiebreaker.
The squad sits in the eighth and final spot as the tournament’s lone wild card team.
However, if another non-bracket winning team finishes with a 3-1 record and a higher average margin of victory in day 2 play tonight, the Magic will be going home.
The video game “Wick,” built by students at UCF’s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, has a dark look, a simple premise – and it’s adorable.
An anthropomorphic candle navigates a cathedral, its wick and flame serving as its life force, as it tries to finish a task its fallen master could not complete.
Then the monster shows up.
“Wick” is a roughly 20-minute adventure that puts players in the role of the cleverly named candle Jean Wick.
The fiery protagonist plays a cat-and-mouse game with a gnarly, gruesome-sounding and -looking demon with a severe case of the hatreds for this little guy.
A group that organizes concerts of bands that perform video game music will go virtual this weekend.
Ongaku Overdrive, which has hosted video-game themed concerts in Orlando since 2013, will feature four acts on its Twitch channel.
Ongaku founder Kent Ward started hosting the events virtually in response to the growing coronavirus pandemic. This will be the third virtual event.
“We have enjoyed hosting online concerts during this time,” Ward said in a news release. “It has given fans something great to enjoy from the safety of their home, while also supporting amazing performers in our community.”
In our small little video game world of Central Florida, The OVG has been trying to spotlight the community.
It has been just more than one year since I launched this website with a goal of showing off what we have here in the region.
It all started with a YouTube channel that highlighted an arcade game aficionado in town who planned to auction off part of his collection.
Months after we launched, I set up this website and have dug every minute of it.
But it has been a mostly part-time gig that has had its stops and starts. Well, it’s time to start again and that will happen July 1.
In one year, this page has allowed me to connect with the Orlando Magic’s esports team and Full Sail University’s deep roster of alumni. It has enhanced my connections with Indienomicon and kept an eye out for high-profile events that made their way through Orlando.
Because of that, I have interviewed the creator of Pitfall!, watched the voice of Scorpion in “Mortal Kombat” tell stories about his career and attended a concert that featured the rapper Mega Ran, who I loved even before he came into town.
On July 1, OrlVideoGames.com will return with more interviews, features, event coverage and esports coverage than before.
How can I possibly know that? Well, I no longer have my full-time gig and am free to devote as much time as I’d like to this effort.
In the coming weeks (before July 1), I’ll be reaching out to the community, being more aggressive in communicating who and what I want to feature.
Spoiler alert: YOU and YOUR PROJECTS!
I want to take this more hyper-local.
On our Facebook page, I have recorded five interviews with local video game personalities. That will continue.
But I also want to finally execute on what I have wanted this to become long ago: a spot to show off what kinds of professionals we have here.
Do you perform music for video games? Hit me up.
Are you creating your own game? Let’s highlight it and create some buzz.
Are you an alum of a local program who is now making games and getting paid for it? Per. Fect.
Magic Gaming couldn’t capitalize on a series of turnovers committed by Wizards District Gaming early in the fourth quarter Friday, leading to the team’s first loss of the season.
The Magic trailed by 14 points heading into the final period of the decisive game and held the Wizards without a point on their first possession.
But three turnovers in the first 1 minute, 15 seconds of the quarter – during which the Wizards were held scoreless – stopped the Magic from gaining any ground.
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